Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-09-28
RESISTED ARREST
JeAn Graham and Charles Blevins Killed While Resisting the
 Sheriff.
Eleven Killed and Ten Wounded to Date in Pleasant Valley in
 Two Months.
The ShersR and Posse Unhurt and Ea Route to Prescott with
 the Tewksburys.

Another chapter of blood has bee
 added to the Pleasant Valley trage.i,
 m Tonto Basin, the actors in the lates
 and it is to be hoped the closing scen.
 being Sheriff Mulvenon and posse. Un
 der Sheriff Wsddell, to-day, received
 telegram from Constable Mckinney, O
 Holbrook, stating that Sheriff Mul
 venom had attempted to arrest Johl
 Graham and Charles Blevins. That tn,
 latter resisted and were shot and killed
 by the Sheriffs party. The Tewks
 burys surrendered, and the sheriff
 party, with them, are now on the way to Prescott, and will probably arrive here tomorrow evening
 The telegram also stated that the
 Grahams, after the fight with the sher-
 if, had scattered. and from telegram
 received later by District Attorney
 Herndon. it is inferred that they have
 gone to Holbrook. A prominent attor-
 ney of that place telegraphed to him that he could arrange for
 THE SURRENDER OF THE GRAHANs
 When the Tewksburys were arrested, and requested an immediate answer. if they had been arrested. McKinney's telegram waa sent from Winslow, and he had just returned from Tonto Basin, where he had followed the trail of the Atlantic < Pacific train robbers.
 As one of the opposing factions is now under arrest, with the probability of the immediate surrender of the other, the bloody scenes enacted during the past six weeks in Pleasant Valley will probably close. for a time at least, and the machinery of the law will now be invoked to settle the difficulties. As yet the cause of the deadly feud seems to be not generally understood by those outside of the valley, and only there by those engaged in the work of blood. A review of the whole situation since
 THE COMMENCEMENT OF HosTrLIr1Es Discloses the fact that eleven persons have been killed, and ten, more or less wounded. The first to be killed was the old man Blevins, the exact date of killing, or the parties committing the deed. being unknown. On the ninth of August, a party of the Graham fac ton rode up to the residence of George Newton. A few words were passed be- tween them and one of the Tewksbury side. A fight ensued in which John Payne and Hamilton Blevins, of the Graham party, were killed. and Giles pie and Tucker wounded. The Tewks- ,ury's took to the hills, and in their ab- 'encs Newton's house and out-build- | ngs were burned to the ground. A few lays later William Graham was killed.
 4 CESSATION uF HosrrLlTIEs Then ensued for several days, during he time Sheriff Mulvenon and posse made their first trip. Immediately after | hey left, John Tewksbury and William | Jacobs, os the Tewksbury faction. were and shot from behind, and Tewksbury's head mashed with . stone, y Andy Cooper, as he himself stated fterwards The scene of blood was hen transferred to Holbrook, where herid Owens, of Apache county, ehot nd killed Andy Cooper and . Blevins oy, while resisting arrest, and wound N. B. Roberts and John Blevins, all the Graham faction. On the l7th or Eth of September, the Grahams sur 'unded the residence of John Tewks- ury, when . fight occurred, at which liddleton, Of the Graham party, was filed, and Ellngwood, Lewis Parker nd Thomas Graham were wounded, nd man named Bennett missing. ! a this fight the
 TEwKssURYs SUSTAINED A LOSS, , wounded, of James Tewksbury and gorge Newton This brings the his " of the bloody struggle down to the yht reported above with the sheriff, in hich John Graham snd Charles Blev- s hav, been killed.
 To summarize it, the loss on the Gra- nm side has been nine killed, five of , hom were from one fsmily-Blevins, nd eight wounded or missing. The ewksburys have lost two killed and 70 wounded Iii For the good name of Arizona, as ell a for the interest of tax payers of { .vapai county. ii is hoped that the ar is nov over. The campaign has 'en briet it being lass than two onths since the first killing was done, 1t the record is bloody ore for that c riod. e